Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Sudan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ash Ra Tempel to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barrington Levy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Metal Thangz,
Deakin,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rakim,
Hoover,
Kerrie Biddell,
Todd Terry,
The Raincoats,
Livin' Joy,
Soulsonic Force,
Aural Exciters,
The Grass Roots,
Crispy Ambulance,
Matthew Bourne,
Aswad,
Mantronix,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
T.S.O.L.,
Ken Boothe,
Man Parrish,
Alice Coltrane,
Unwound,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Brand Nubian,
Eve St. Jones,
Andrew Hill,
Eddi Front,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roger Hodgson,
The Moody Blues,
Crooked Eye,
Fear,
Theoretical Girls,
Easy Going,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Liliput,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cluster,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roy Ayers,
The Tremeloes,
The Gladiators,
Gichy Dan,
The Fall,
Flash Fearless,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bob Dylan,
Spoonie Gee,
Qualms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Suicide,
Q65,
New York Dolls,
Faust,
Bad Manners,
Agitation Free,
Amazonics,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.